Tag Archives: Tuscany

A lovely wine to ease you into Friday afternoon. Kat and I tasted at La Gerla last week and were very impressed with not only the estate and the wines but also the rather dashing and down-to-earth winemaker/agronomist Alberto Passeri. With two plots of land either side of the town of Montalcino, they are able to […]

It was difficult to tear ourselves away from the idyllic hilltop village of Volpaia on Tuesday morning – thinking that the scenery and wines simply couldn’t get any better. But how wrong we were! There was still so much of Tuscany to discover and we set off early amidst a chorus of birdsong for Castello […]

On Sunday 18th June, we flew from London to Pisa for the beginning of our grand tour of Tuscany. To be fair, the schedule was more whistle-stop than grand, but nonetheless, it was an exciting looking itinerary. Flying on the Sunday was designed to avoid Monday-morning stress and for us to be able to hit […]

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The recent news stories in the wine press have been very much focused on Brunello di Montalcino, and that prompted us to have a look at the youngest of all of Italy’s great and prestigious wines. In 1888, Ferrucio Biondi-Santi identified a superior clone of Sangiovese, known locally as Brunello (also Sangiovese Grosso), and vinified it […]